Deficit fraud Rubio plans to balance the budget with earmarks and pipe dreams.
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Florida’s Republican Senate candidate Marco Rubio has already made it abundantly clear that he is not serious about addressing the country’s long-term structural deficit. He is in favor of permanently extending the Bush tax cuts for the rich — at a cost of $830 billion over ten years — while simultaneously proposing a slew of new budget busting tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. But just in case we needed some more evidence of Rubio’s deficit peacockery, he was happy to provide it during an interview last night with Fox Business’ David Asman. Rubio said that his plan for addressing the nation’s fiscal situation amounts to a constitutional amendment requiring a federal balanced budget, banning earmarks, unspecified entitlement reform, and putting “term limits” on federal agencies — excluding defense, of course:
RUBIO: The second thing we have to do is spending constraints. That means a constitutionally balanced budget, that means banning the practice of earmarks, and ultimately that means entitlement reform. [...]
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